| re: When a musical is revived, should it be influenced by its film version? | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 07:41 am EDT 08/31/18 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 07:30 am EDT 08/31/18 | |
| In reply to: re: When a musical is revived, should it be influenced by its film version? - Chazwaza 07:15 am EDT 08/31/18 | |
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| but I cannot understand how you think that the film song's lyrics are repetitive but "Sitting Pretty"'s lyrics are not... have you looked at them recently? They are literally repetitive. Have YOU looked at them recently? They're not - literally or otherwise. The difference between a refrain that starts with: "Money makes the world go around, The world go around, The world go around, Money makes the world go around" And the refrain for Sitting Pretty, that relies on a simpler (and very typical) standard "32-bar" AABA form (with the bridge to the end repeated after the dance sequence, plus a few repeated extensions along the way, in and out of the dance breaks) Is huge. There is *musical* repetition in the A sections of Sitting Pretty, (the A sections are built on a 3-time musical phrase followed by the "but me, I'm sitting pretty" part) but the only repetitive lyrics within any section are the "has money" in the first A, and that's only sung twice. (Yes, the "sitting pretty" part gets sung in each A section, but that's true of any number of songs that follow a standard pattern - that's much less about "repetition" for its own sake than it is about how song structure is built. Don't confuse song form with extra repetition. Look at, say, "Someone To Watch Over Me" or "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" etc. Or even other songs in this same show. That's a standard kind of repetition in most songs of this form. Nothing unique for the song.) "The Money Song" is literally a much much much much more repetitive lyric than "Sitting Pretty" by any and all possible standards, no dispute possible. (And we haven't even talked about the endless chants of "money money money" in the Money song, etc.) Sorry... And for the record, I like both songs. But looking that the way the lyrics are built in both. "The Money Song" RELIES on repetition as one of its prime building blocks. much more than most songs. "Sitting Pretty" is as typically simple AABA and not any more repetitive than you'd expect with any other standard song of that form. I'm not sure how you can see it any differently. |
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